Re: [MacPerl] Perl Usage Survey -[veering OT]

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

Eric Dobbs, <dobbs@epost.com> wrote:

>>At 04.59 -0500 1998.11.06, Jay Bedsole wrote:
>>>users (who probably outnumber Mac users 50 to 1) have only twice
>>>as many votes as the Mac OS... this tells me that the average
>>>Mac user is more likely to be a technical person than the average
>>>windows user... actually, I can't say I'm that surprised. <WINK>
>>
>At 7:32 AM -0500 11/6/1998, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>I think this is absolutely true, though I think that it is primarily
>>because nontechnical people are much more likely to use the monopoly OS
>>than a nonstandard, "dying" OS.  Those of us who stick with Mac OS are,
>>conversely, much less likely to be nontechnical people.
>
>Ironic, isn't it, given the non-technical *image* that we Mac
>users are often burdened with?

Pundits, and the hoi polloi tend to think that "easy to use" means "used 
by idiots".  This ignores the First Great Virtue.  Generally Mac users 
exhibit all the Great Virtues.  Mac users are by FAR Lazier than Unix or 
Windows users.   Having a computer which already so throughly anticipates 
our needs makes us Impatient with the vast majority who are still playing 
catch-up.  And I can think of no better example of Hubris than this very 
thread (gee, this may be getting a bit out of hand).

Perl in general encourages the Great Virtues, but MacPerl *exemplifies* 
them.

It's fun to see Perl programmers developing in MacPerl for deployment on 
Unix, and gratifying that Perl remains so cross-platform.  It's equally 
gratifying to take a Perl program developed in Unix Perl and run it under 
MacPerl with little or no modification.

The next Perl Usage Survey (hopefully there will be another), should 
probably ask more detailed questions.

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